Real estate agents use them to tout the desirability of neighborhoods. Parents monitor them to choose schools. Principals live and die by them. But Academic Performance Index scores, the cornerstone ...

Say farewell to the API as you know it. Welcome to new era of accountability, with at least a couple years of confusion in between. The release Thursday of the results on the state’s Academic ...

San Bernardino County schools continued more than a decade of improvement on standardized test scores, including setting a new high for schools above a key state benchmark, state officials announced ...

For more than a decade, the Academic Performance Index has defined the public’s perception of a school. Parents relied on the three-digit number, tied exclusively to scores on standardized tests, to ...

A school’s API score, which reflects students’ performance on standardized math and English tests, can also help predict whether students will qualify for admission to the UC or CSU system, a new ...

Academic Performance Index scores for Peninsula school districts improved across the board and while an achievement gap persists for Hispanic and black students, this year’s numbers show some evidence ...

This morning, the California Department of Education released the Academic Performance Index (API) scores of its schools. The API is comprised of several different measures, including the results of ...